Some People May Ask: What harms does water hardness bring? As long as the scale does not enter the human body along with the water, it hardly matters, right? The answer is definitely no. When water flows through water pipes covered with large amounts of scale, contaminants will flow out together with the water and cause potential harms. Once you understand the dangers caused by water hardness, you will take Water Quality Monitoring seriously! Below we elaborate on the hazards of excessive water hardness:
1.If overly hard water is used for laundry, detergent will hardly produce foam, reducing its decontamination effect and increasing laundry costs instead. In addition, calcium and magnesium ions react with detergent to form heavy metal salts, which can harden and embrittle textile fibers, causing clothes to age prematurely and get damaged.
2.Boiling high-hardness water in kettles will leave a layer of limescale at the bottom. This reduces the heat transfer efficiency of the kettle, prolonging boiling time and wasting both time and fuel. Furthermore, besides calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, limescale contains harmful heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and arsenic. If left untreated, these substances will accumulate, dissolve into the water during subsequent boiling, and cause chronic poisoning after ingestion, posing a serious threat to human health.
3.Washing face and hair with hard water will form highly viscous calcium-magnesium soap residues that adhere to the skin. Over time, these residues clog skin glands and disrupt normal metabolism, leading to dryness and skin atrophy. Infants are particularly vulnerable to such damage.
4.Brewing tea or coffee with hard water also causes adverse effects. Calcium and magnesium ions in hard water inhibit the dissolution of tea polyphenols, compromising the taste and quality of tea and coffee alike. When used for cooking and steaming food, hard water makes ingredients harder to cook thoroughly and reduces the nutritional value of food.
After learning about all these hazards of excessive water hardness, can we still afford to ignore it? Can we forgo water treatment and monitoring? Absolutely not. We can adopt the T8000-WH Online Water Hardness Analyzer to conduct real-time monitoring of water hardness, ensuring it stays within safe standard ranges.
